Six months into new EU labeling guidelines, businesses shifting strategies but bracing for problems.

04/13/2016 - 08:25

Joshua Mitnick

Contributing Editor

Jordan Valley, West Bank — The headquarters of the Jordan Valley Regional Council looks out onto groves of palm trees whose sugary dates are shipped to Europe — one of the biggest exports of this settlement farming region. Despite the idyllic view, the strip of farms along the border is one of the main fronts in a battle over labeling Israeli products from the West Bank.